With these types of companies popping up, I'm left wondering how carpenters feel when someone watches a few episodes of HGTV and decides they can build their ow

With these types of companies popping up, I'm left wondering how carpenters feel when someone watches a few episodes of HGTV and decides they can build their own house. There is so much more to programming and building a product than simply typing some magical symbols into an editor. Sure, it's a start, but once a product is built, deployed to production, and then has customers, it will need constant nurturing. Databases get slow, hardware fails, logs fill up diskspace, and yet that's only the tip of the iceberg in programming. Stating you can learn to code in one month is nothing more than the 'Teach Yourself $LANG in 24 Hours" from yesteryear. It minimizes the amount of skill and experience one needs to be a programmer and make $120,000 per year (which is still a lot of money). OneMonthRails is a start, especially if you want to learn how to program, but I find it unethical to insinuate that one can land a $120k/yr job after 1 month of training. For all my fellow Canadian compatriots, I read the marketing page of OneMonthRails and see visions of Tom Vu [1] trying to tell us about his guaranteed technique to becoming rich (later found out as the greater fool theory). [1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQNdi-fRExc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQNdi-fRExc [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_fool_theory http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_fool_theory